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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!ira.uka.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!stepsun.uni-kl.de!sun.rhrk.uni-kl.de!andrick From: andrick@sun.rhrk.uni-kl.de (Dr. Uwe Koch [Biologie]) Subject: Re: probs with uucp and sendmail Message-ID: <1993May3.155330.12405@rhrk.uni-kl.de> Sender: news@rhrk.uni-kl.de Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4 References: <PC123.93Apr30195457@bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 3 May 1993 15:53:30 GMT Lines: 21 pc123@cus.cam.ac.uk (Pete Chown) writes: : : The solution is to avoid hybrid addresses, but making sendmail change : its behaviour in such a fundamental way is likely to be a bit of : nightmare. For UUCP purposes, it's often useful to pass all Internet style domain addresses unmodified to a gateway via UUCP, so that you can mail to `a@b.c' and the mail is uucp'd to a `smart' host that can resolve the address more easily (or sends it to a smarter host). This is not too difficult to achieve if, beginning with a TCP/IP configuration file, you replace the TCP mailer by a UUCP mailer sending everything to the gateway. I have made such changes in my sendmail.cf and it seems to work. Perhaps, this is a little like a dirty trick, but it spares you rewriting the whole sendmail.cf. -- Ulf R. Andrick andrick@rhrk.uni-kl.de privat (UUCP): andrick@unix-ag.uni-kl.de ura@strix.cluster.sub.org